Bossa Invest

Bossa Nova Investimentos e Administração S.A. is a venture capital firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, specializing in pre-seed, seed, startup, and early-stage investments. Founded in 2010, Bossa Nova is recognized as Brazil's first micro venture capital firm and has become the most active investor in the pre-seed stage within the country. The firm focuses on technology sectors, particularly software, service development, mobile applications, SaaS, and B2B solutions, and has expanded its investment activities to include companies in the United States. Bossa Nova typically makes minority investments, with funding ranging from R$0.1 million to R$0.8 million per project. Additionally, the firm manages the Bossa Nova Sports Tech Fund, which targets investments in consumer and business products, information technology, wellness, and gaming sectors, with preferred investment amounts between R$0.1 million and R$0.3 million across multiple companies.

Flavio Garcia

Investor

Marcus Marques

Investor

Ricardo Miranda

Investor

Thiago Gomes Hilário de Oliveira

Partner

Guilherme Pepe

Investment Analyst

Past deals in Market Research

Oficina de Valor

Venture Round in 2022
Oficina de Valor is an information services company based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that specializes in transforming data into actionable insights for businesses. Founded in 2000, the company provides an information service platform that integrates analytical intelligence tools designed to bridge the gap between planning and execution. By leveraging data, Oficina de Valor enables organizations to effectively implement their strategies and improve decision-making processes.

Range

Seed Round in 2021
Range is a full-service marketing communications company that specializes in providing a wide array of services, including strategy, technology, creative services, digital and print solutions, as well as promotional and fulfillment services. The firm focuses on delivering tailored, custom solutions to meet the unique needs of its clients across various industries, including financial services and dealer networks. Range is known for its ability to integrate cross-media campaigns and leverage creative services to effectively solve problems and enhance client engagement.

SalesKen

Series B in 2021
SalesKen develops a conversational intelligence and analytics platform that provides valuable insights into customer interactions, specifically during calls, presentations, and webinars. This platform enables sales teams to understand their communication effectiveness, identifying strengths and areas for improvement. In addition to enhancing sales performance, SalesKen offers vocational skills training and career counseling, equipping individuals with customized learning content that increases employability in sectors such as banking, financial services, insurance, and information technology. By focusing on the last mile of customer-salesperson interactions, SalesKen supports organizations in optimizing their sales processes and developing their workforce.

Peel

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a data intelligence tool designed to automate business analytics. The company's tools provide insights and identify key trends through hypersegmented reports and cohort analysis for eCommerce stores and also provide prebuilt dashboards, revenue reports, and security, enabling firms to continuously monitor business health and performance and measure data and improve customer acquisition and retention.

Plannuh

Venture Round in 2021
Plannuh, Inc. is a Boston-based company that offers an artificial intelligence-driven software platform designed for building, managing, and sharing marketing plans, budgets, and performance goals. Founded in 2017, Plannuh provides a cloud-based solution that allows marketers to optimize their spending and automate strategic planning. The platform enables users to organize budgets into campaigns and programs, track expenditures, align marketing efforts with objectives, and measure performance against target metrics. It is user-friendly and can be set up quickly without requiring IT assistance, with individual users able to access the system for free. Plannuh's services cater to Chief Marketing Officers, marketing operations teams, and budget owners, aiming to enhance operational marketing excellence.

Viable

Seed Round in 2021
Viable Fit develops a structured user platform designed to use historical qualitative data to answer new questions instantly. Viable Fit offers a custom-branded survey, measures product/market fits, automatically segments customers into groups, and discovers user feedbacks based on keywords, thereby enabling businesses to get valuable suggestions from customers more accurately.

Vitrine

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Vitrine is a Brazilian startup that specializes in software services for merchandising management and brand marketing solutions. The company aims to enhance sales turnover by providing tools that allow businesses to standardize their stores efficiently, achieving greater organization and quality in less time. Vitrine's offerings are designed to streamline merchandising processes, making them valuable for retailers looking to improve their operational effectiveness and drive revenue growth.

Memo

Venture Round in 2021
Operator of a media marketplace created for PR professionals to buy media insights from publishers. The company collects useful data using impressions and proxy metrics, in subjects like campaign summary, competitive analysis, content strategy, and crisis management and presents it in the report format, enabling digital publishers to draw useful insights for their business growth.

MakerSights

Series B in 2021
MakerSights Inc. is a product intelligence software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015. It specializes in providing product development solutions for consumer brands in the retail industry. The company's platform allows brand partners to effectively gauge customer demand for upcoming products and concepts by analyzing preferences for styles, colors, and product attributes. Through predictive analysis, MakerSights helps businesses forecast product sales, track shifts in consumer behavior, and identify both popular and underrated products. This information enables brands to make informed decisions throughout the product creation process, ultimately optimizing their resources and enhancing product design based on customer insights.

SalesKen

Seed Round in 2021
SalesKen develops a conversational intelligence and analytics platform that provides valuable insights into customer interactions, specifically during calls, presentations, and webinars. This platform enables sales teams to understand their communication effectiveness, identifying strengths and areas for improvement. In addition to enhancing sales performance, SalesKen offers vocational skills training and career counseling, equipping individuals with customized learning content that increases employability in sectors such as banking, financial services, insurance, and information technology. By focusing on the last mile of customer-salesperson interactions, SalesKen supports organizations in optimizing their sales processes and developing their workforce.

Enable Us

Seed Round in 2021
Referenceable is an all-in-one workspace for the B2B Sales, Marketing, and Customer facing teams to provide a personalized and interactive buying and onboarding experience to their prospective customers. Customer facing teams have everything they need in one single location to: - Capture Video/Audio Product demos, customer references, sales decks, white-papers, contracts, onboarding material, and other content - Automatically organize & contextualize (by industry, persona, deal stage, deal size) - Build personalized deal rooms with AI-targeted content, simplified workflows, and 1:1 communication with the prospect and other stakeholders/influencers.

User Interviews

Series A in 2021
User Interviews, Inc. is a company that provides a platform designed to recruit participants for product testing and market research. The company offers two primary products: Recruit, which facilitates flexible participant recruitment for various research types, and Research Hub, a centralized system for managing research participants. Additionally, User Interviews offers a UX Research field guide that serves as a resource for researchers, designers, and product managers, covering various research methods. With a mission to help businesses make informed decisions, User Interviews connects companies with their target customers, enabling them to test new ideas, concepts, and products effectively. This approach helps organizations avoid costly mistakes and focus on developing products that align with customer needs. Established in 2013 and based in Brooklyn, New York, User Interviews was previously known as MobileSuites, Inc. before rebranding in 2015.

Zeeng

Seed Round in 2021
Zeeng offers a platform focused on Marketing and Communication aimed at helping decision-making of segment managers. The Company is based in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

RankMyApp

Seed Round in 2021
RankMyApp is a company that specializes in app store optimization, providing a tool that enhances the visibility and organic downloads of applications in app stores. Founded in 2015 by Leandro Scalise, the company is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, with an additional office in San Francisco, California. Its sophisticated algorithm helps users optimize various aspects of their applications, including titles, descriptions, icons, screenshots, categories, keywords, and competitor analysis. By focusing on strategic keywords, RankMyApp enables clients to improve their app rankings and attract new users while retaining existing ones.

Tilda Research

Venture Round in 2021
Provider of research-based services intended to transform healthcare through new research. The company's services focus on providing clinical trial research that ranges from phase I-IV clinical trials across multiple indications in collaboration with other leading healthcare companies, enabling pharma companies to accelerate clinical innovation and bench-to-market pharmaceutical technologies and life-saving patient treatments.

Because Market

Venture Round in 2021
Because Market is a direct-to-consumer company specializing in personal care products for older adults, founded in 2017. The company aims to simplify the process for families to obtain essential health and wellness items, including incontinence underwear, pads, skincare products, supplements, and walkers. With a focus on discreet delivery and flexible subscription options, Because Market seeks to improve the quality of life for seniors, enabling them to lead vibrant and independent lives. The company has successfully raised over $30 million in funding from prominent venture capital firms, which underscores its commitment to becoming a trusted brand for older adults and their families.

Gauge

Venture Round in 2021
Provider of user experience and performance consultancy services intended to create new, consistent and true experiences. The company's services include conversion optimization, brand performance, digital product and innovation in business, thereby enabling its clients to avail services to optimize the investments in digital channels focused on conversion and business.

Sacra

Seed Round in 2020
Sacra provides a digital platform for researching information on the private markets. The company monitors and facilitates liquidity in late-stage VC secondary transactions. Its platform offers research on venture capital and private equity firms, enabling clients to make proper decisions when investing in the private markets.

Viable

Venture Round in 2020
Viable Fit develops a structured user platform designed to use historical qualitative data to answer new questions instantly. Viable Fit offers a custom-branded survey, measures product/market fits, automatically segments customers into groups, and discovers user feedbacks based on keywords, thereby enabling businesses to get valuable suggestions from customers more accurately.

Metadata

Series A in 2020
Metadata, Inc. operates a demand generation platform tailored for B2B enterprises, focusing on inbound marketing and customer acquisition. The platform automates essential marketing tasks, allowing users to efficiently scale their demand generation efforts. It offers features such as campaign amplification, detailed profile information for incoming signups, and the auto-generation of buyer personas. Users can segment prospects by various criteria, including industry and technology stack, and monitor new signups to enhance their sales pipeline. By leveraging machine learning and a proprietary identity graph, Metadata streamlines marketing processes and aligns them with revenue objectives, helping businesses convert target accounts into customers more effectively than traditional methods. Incorporated in 2015, Metadata is based in San Francisco, California, and is utilized by numerous innovative B2B marketers to optimize their marketing strategies.

Freatz

Seed Round in 2020
Freatz is a Brazilian company that has developed a management intelligence platform focused on enhancing the restaurant industry. The platform allows consumers to receive free meals in exchange for their feedback on various aspects of dining experiences, including product quality, service, and overall atmosphere. By collecting and analyzing consumer perceptions, Freatz generates comprehensive evaluations of restaurants, helping them to improve their operations, differentiate themselves from competitors, and attract more repeat customers. This innovative approach not only benefits consumers by providing them with free food but also supports restaurants in optimizing their offerings and increasing profitability.

Klue

Series A in 2020
B2B SaaS providing market and competitive intelligence. Helps sales, and the teams that enable them, leverage competitive intelligence to win more business. It was founded in 2015 by Jason Smith and Sarathy Naicker and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Peel

Venture Round in 2020
Developer of a data intelligence tool designed to automate business analytics. The company's tools provide insights and identify key trends through hypersegmented reports and cohort analysis for eCommerce stores and also provide prebuilt dashboards, revenue reports, and security, enabling firms to continuously monitor business health and performance and measure data and improve customer acquisition and retention.

Vitrine

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Vitrine is a Brazilian startup that specializes in software services for merchandising management and brand marketing solutions. The company aims to enhance sales turnover by providing tools that allow businesses to standardize their stores efficiently, achieving greater organization and quality in less time. Vitrine's offerings are designed to streamline merchandising processes, making them valuable for retailers looking to improve their operational effectiveness and drive revenue growth.

Cortex

Series B in 2020
Cortex Intelligence Tecnologia S.A. develops and operates insights platform for sales and marketing. The company’s big data platform combines user’s internal data with external information, such as pricing, market statistics, economic indices, Social media, news articles, governmental public sources, and others. Its platform is used by various companies in the areas of market, business, sales, retail, and trade intelligence, as well as data driven communications. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Worthix

Venture Round in 2020
Worthix Corp. is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-based customer survey solutions aimed at uncovering the motivations behind customer decisions. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, with an additional office in San Francisco, Worthix has developed a self-adaptive survey platform known as The Worthix. This innovative technology generates questions dynamically based on real-time customer responses, allowing businesses to gain insights from their customers' perspectives. By focusing on the "why" behind purchasing, loyalty, and churn decisions, Worthix enables companies to understand customer experiences more deeply and adapt their strategies accordingly. The platform also provides auto-analyzed reports, helping clients capture valuable insights and remain responsive to changing customer needs.

RankMyApp

Seed Round in 2020
RankMyApp is a company that specializes in app store optimization, providing a tool that enhances the visibility and organic downloads of applications in app stores. Founded in 2015 by Leandro Scalise, the company is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, with an additional office in San Francisco, California. Its sophisticated algorithm helps users optimize various aspects of their applications, including titles, descriptions, icons, screenshots, categories, keywords, and competitor analysis. By focusing on strategic keywords, RankMyApp enables clients to improve their app rankings and attract new users while retaining existing ones.

Snapcart

Venture Round in 2020
Snapcart is a cashback application based in Indonesia that allows consumers to earn rewards by taking photos of their receipts. The app provides brands and retailers with real-time insights into consumer behavior, offering a more accurate measurement than traditional research methods. By incentivizing users to engage with their receipts, Snapcart helps businesses connect with shoppers on a personal level, enhancing brand engagement through crowd-sourced data. This innovative approach enables clients to build stronger relationships with consumers, ultimately driving loyalty and improving marketing strategies. Backed by Ardent Capital, Snapcart aims to transform the way brands understand and interact with their customers.

Plannuh

Seed Round in 2020
Plannuh, Inc. is a Boston-based company that offers an artificial intelligence-driven software platform designed for building, managing, and sharing marketing plans, budgets, and performance goals. Founded in 2017, Plannuh provides a cloud-based solution that allows marketers to optimize their spending and automate strategic planning. The platform enables users to organize budgets into campaigns and programs, track expenditures, align marketing efforts with objectives, and measure performance against target metrics. It is user-friendly and can be set up quickly without requiring IT assistance, with individual users able to access the system for free. Plannuh's services cater to Chief Marketing Officers, marketing operations teams, and budget owners, aiming to enhance operational marketing excellence.

User Interviews

Venture Round in 2020
User Interviews, Inc. is a company that provides a platform designed to recruit participants for product testing and market research. The company offers two primary products: Recruit, which facilitates flexible participant recruitment for various research types, and Research Hub, a centralized system for managing research participants. Additionally, User Interviews offers a UX Research field guide that serves as a resource for researchers, designers, and product managers, covering various research methods. With a mission to help businesses make informed decisions, User Interviews connects companies with their target customers, enabling them to test new ideas, concepts, and products effectively. This approach helps organizations avoid costly mistakes and focus on developing products that align with customer needs. Established in 2013 and based in Brooklyn, New York, User Interviews was previously known as MobileSuites, Inc. before rebranding in 2015.

RankMyApp

Seed Round in 2019
RankMyApp is a company that specializes in app store optimization, providing a tool that enhances the visibility and organic downloads of applications in app stores. Founded in 2015 by Leandro Scalise, the company is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, with an additional office in San Francisco, California. Its sophisticated algorithm helps users optimize various aspects of their applications, including titles, descriptions, icons, screenshots, categories, keywords, and competitor analysis. By focusing on strategic keywords, RankMyApp enables clients to improve their app rankings and attract new users while retaining existing ones.

RD Station

Series D in 2019
RD Station provides an intuitive and integrated marketing automation platform to help businesses get a better ROI on digital ad spending using fewer programs and tools. With the cloud-based RD Station software, clients can track leads, create landing pages, drive inbound traffic, distribute content, monitor social media, and more, all in one place. In addition to the user-friendly technology, RD Station offers free educational resources like eBooks, webinars, courses, templates, and follow-up implementation services to ensure that even the most digitally inexperienced clients become marketing mavens. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Florianópolis, Brazil.

Mercafacil

Venture Round in 2019
Developer of customer intelligence software designed to offer strategic information from various raw data to manage businesses. The company's software offers big data, dashboards, and strategic retail advisory services, enabling retailers to avail market insights to make decisions for strategic retail management.

RD Station

Seed Round in 2019
RD Station provides an intuitive and integrated marketing automation platform to help businesses get a better ROI on digital ad spending using fewer programs and tools. With the cloud-based RD Station software, clients can track leads, create landing pages, drive inbound traffic, distribute content, monitor social media, and more, all in one place. In addition to the user-friendly technology, RD Station offers free educational resources like eBooks, webinars, courses, templates, and follow-up implementation services to ensure that even the most digitally inexperienced clients become marketing mavens. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Florianópolis, Brazil.

Freatz

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Freatz is a Brazilian company that has developed a management intelligence platform focused on enhancing the restaurant industry. The platform allows consumers to receive free meals in exchange for their feedback on various aspects of dining experiences, including product quality, service, and overall atmosphere. By collecting and analyzing consumer perceptions, Freatz generates comprehensive evaluations of restaurants, helping them to improve their operations, differentiate themselves from competitors, and attract more repeat customers. This innovative approach not only benefits consumers by providing them with free food but also supports restaurants in optimizing their offerings and increasing profitability.

Rede Vistorias

Venture Round in 2018
Rede Vistorias is an innovative solution company specialized in performing real estate surveys for rental or sale. It also provides solutions that integrate a digital platform in transparency, agility, and security to real estate companies, clients, and their builders. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Vitrine

Seed Round in 2018
Vitrine is a Brazilian startup that specializes in software services for merchandising management and brand marketing solutions. The company aims to enhance sales turnover by providing tools that allow businesses to standardize their stores efficiently, achieving greater organization and quality in less time. Vitrine's offerings are designed to streamline merchandising processes, making them valuable for retailers looking to improve their operational effectiveness and drive revenue growth.

TESTR

Venture Round in 2018
Testr operates as a dual-purpose platform focused on both product sampling and usability testing. It offers consumers the opportunity to try a diverse range of products, including groceries, health and ecological items, and beauty and care products from various brands worldwide. Simultaneously, Testr provides businesses with an agile usability testing platform that evaluates user experience across websites, applications, and prototypes. This research tool identifies usability issues, allowing companies to enhance user experience and improve conversion rates. By combining product sampling with usability insights, Testr aims to bridge the gap between consumer needs and effective product design.

Snapcart

Series A in 2017
Snapcart is a cashback application based in Indonesia that allows consumers to earn rewards by taking photos of their receipts. The app provides brands and retailers with real-time insights into consumer behavior, offering a more accurate measurement than traditional research methods. By incentivizing users to engage with their receipts, Snapcart helps businesses connect with shoppers on a personal level, enhancing brand engagement through crowd-sourced data. This innovative approach enables clients to build stronger relationships with consumers, ultimately driving loyalty and improving marketing strategies. Backed by Ardent Capital, Snapcart aims to transform the way brands understand and interact with their customers.

NMIND

Pre Seed Round in 2017
NMIND is a market intelligence company based in Brazil that specializes in data analytics and data science. The company focuses on mapping consumer habits and brand performance at points of sale, providing valuable insights to enhance business operations. By utilizing aggregate data from various systems, NMIND delivers customized solutions that cater to the specific needs of its clients, including small and medium-sized businesses. This intelligence not only aids large companies in improving their performance but also positively influences the entire supply chain by sharing best market practices. NMIND's platform enables businesses to better understand their neighboring markets and effectively compete in the consumer landscape.

RankScience

Venture Round in 2017
RankScience is a continuous-optimization platform that improves website SEO through automatic A/B testing and data science.

PeaceLabs

Venture Round in 2016
We help companies, institutes or business foundations to dynamically monitor the impact and results of their social responsibility projects

RankMyApp

Pre Seed Round in 2016
RankMyApp is a company that specializes in app store optimization, providing a tool that enhances the visibility and organic downloads of applications in app stores. Founded in 2015 by Leandro Scalise, the company is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, with an additional office in San Francisco, California. Its sophisticated algorithm helps users optimize various aspects of their applications, including titles, descriptions, icons, screenshots, categories, keywords, and competitor analysis. By focusing on strategic keywords, RankMyApp enables clients to improve their app rankings and attract new users while retaining existing ones.

RankMyApp

Seed Round in 2016
RankMyApp is a company that specializes in app store optimization, providing a tool that enhances the visibility and organic downloads of applications in app stores. Founded in 2015 by Leandro Scalise, the company is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, with an additional office in San Francisco, California. Its sophisticated algorithm helps users optimize various aspects of their applications, including titles, descriptions, icons, screenshots, categories, keywords, and competitor analysis. By focusing on strategic keywords, RankMyApp enables clients to improve their app rankings and attract new users while retaining existing ones.

NMIND

Seed Round in 2016
NMIND is a market intelligence company based in Brazil that specializes in data analytics and data science. The company focuses on mapping consumer habits and brand performance at points of sale, providing valuable insights to enhance business operations. By utilizing aggregate data from various systems, NMIND delivers customized solutions that cater to the specific needs of its clients, including small and medium-sized businesses. This intelligence not only aids large companies in improving their performance but also positively influences the entire supply chain by sharing best market practices. NMIND's platform enables businesses to better understand their neighboring markets and effectively compete in the consumer landscape.

NMIND

Venture Round in 2015
NMIND is a market intelligence company based in Brazil that specializes in data analytics and data science. The company focuses on mapping consumer habits and brand performance at points of sale, providing valuable insights to enhance business operations. By utilizing aggregate data from various systems, NMIND delivers customized solutions that cater to the specific needs of its clients, including small and medium-sized businesses. This intelligence not only aids large companies in improving their performance but also positively influences the entire supply chain by sharing best market practices. NMIND's platform enables businesses to better understand their neighboring markets and effectively compete in the consumer landscape.

InfoPrice

Venture Round in 2014
InfoPrice is a business intelligence company based in São Paulo, Brazil, that focuses on providing price monitoring and analysis services for the retail industry. Founded in 2013, the company has developed a technology platform that allows retailers and industries to digitally collect and store product bar codes, facilitating comprehensive price monitoring. InfoPrice assists its clients in improving profit margins, increasing sales, and formulating effective pricing strategies by offering insights into competitor pricing. Its services cater to a variety of clients, including supermarkets and research institutions, aiming to enhance decision-making within the consumer chain through accessible pricing information.

RD Station

Series A in 2013
RD Station provides an intuitive and integrated marketing automation platform to help businesses get a better ROI on digital ad spending using fewer programs and tools. With the cloud-based RD Station software, clients can track leads, create landing pages, drive inbound traffic, distribute content, monitor social media, and more, all in one place. In addition to the user-friendly technology, RD Station offers free educational resources like eBooks, webinars, courses, templates, and follow-up implementation services to ensure that even the most digitally inexperienced clients become marketing mavens. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Florianópolis, Brazil.

Dod

Venture Round in 2013
Dod operates an analytics platform that focuses on assessing customer service and sales within physical retail environments. The platform utilizes advanced technology to identify demographic factors such as gender and age, as well as to analyze consumer reactions to products and services through facial recognition. This data helps retailers gain insights into the purchasing journey, identify potential points of customer withdrawal, and evaluate employee engagement. By providing these analytics, Dod enables businesses to enhance customer experiences and optimize their sales strategies.
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